4170 overclocking

[officedemon]

I don't see that you have to go to water cooling at this point,
start reducing the vcore 1 or two clicks in the bios at your 4.2 oc, prime 95 for thirty minutes and if you have no issues do it again till you have an issue then bump it back up 2 clicks. then if core temps peak at less than 55c bump the multi up .5 and do it again.
this helps us do the most with the least.

if i put the bus to 211 the temps go crazy high at 210 its fine
I got a save OC to 4530MHz 32c core and cpu 40c
multiplier 21.5 and bus at 210
i want to do a little better than that

so you say to lower my vcore just a little and try to up the multiplier?
i'll give it a try.

 

[caddi daddi]

no, i want you to make one change at a time.
you have no reason to adjust the fsb, set it back to 200. and use only the cpu ratio to clock with at this point.
a change to the bus changes to many things at this point.
I want you to post the screenshots I asked for.
it really helps us not to fry your machine.

 

[officedemon]

everything is back to stock.

 

[caddi daddi]

in the screen with cool and quiet, all should be disabled.
run prime 95 for 30 minutes with hardware monitor and cpuz open and post a screenshot when you are done.
have you removed amd overdrive if installed? if not uninstall it.
do not open ai suite.

 

[officedemon]

at idle my core get to 5c(41F) i dont get that when my room temp is 65F

 

[caddi daddi]

amd calculates the core temps, ignore idle temps, loaded temps are what matter.
go into bios, change cpu& nb voltage from off set mode to manual.
set cpu voltage to 1.32.
set cpu nb voltage to 1.175.
click the tool tab at the top.
open the profile section and save these settings as 4.2.
reboot, prime 95 30 mins.

 

[officedemon]

amd calculates the core temps, ignore idle temps, loaded temps are what matter.

don't know if you can see it but there 32c core and 40cpu

 

[caddi daddi]

"cpu temp is socket or vrm section temp, as long as it is within 10c of core temp for the time it's good.
"cpu" temp only gets to be a REAL issue with poor airflow or 8 core processors.

 

[caddi daddi]

with your temps you need a little more airflow into the area around the processor but your no where near critical.

 

[officedemon]

i have 10 fans in my computer btw

39c cpu and core 28c

 

[caddi daddi]

ok, lets bump our vcore voltage up 2 clicks and our ratio up 1.0 to 4400.
prime 95 for 30 minutes if it fails up the vcore 1 click at a time till it passes.

 

[caddi daddi]

the screenshots are good, but i want to see the windows clock also.
most others perfer it snipped.

 

[caddi daddi]

I have a 4170 coming that should be here friday so i will be right in here with you next week. it would be this weekend but i have that one to swap and clean the loop, one to build and a custom loop to build in the other so i will be building and rebuilding all weekend.

 

[caddi daddi]

just repeat this till your core temps reach 55c.
you don't need to change anything else other than cpu ratio, vcore, and cpu/nb voltage.
you can overshoot 55c, 62c is actually ok.
vcore limit is 1.55volts.

 

[caddi daddi]

if you will reset bios to default.
in aisuite i want to to adjust only 2 things.
#1 set cpu ratio to get 4400.
#2 set core voltage to 1.40.
stress test this for 30 minutes in prime 95 wathing core temps to besure that they stay at or below safe limits.

 

[officedemon]

if you will reset bios to default.
in aisuite i want to to adjust only 2 things.
#1 set cpu ratio to get 4400.
#2 set core voltage to 1.40.
stress test this for 30 minutes in prime 95 wathing core temps to besure that they stay at or below safe limits.

been busy last few days, but i will get right back into OC'ing
how is your 4170?

 

[caddi daddi]

its' going well enough, today i am building and rebuilding.
I have gotten away from bulldozer and gone all phenom II, so i am having to relearn, voltage and cpu ratio only!!!

 

[officedemon]

i reset the BIOS to default and turned off the power saving things and set the RAM to 1866
i changed the vcore to 1.400000v and cpu to 4400MHz temps were over 64c so i stopped it.

prime95 blend right?

 

[trents]

Boy, those temps see too high for only 1.4 vcore and a hyper 212+ evo and good case ventilation. Is that 54c a core temp or a CPU (socket) temp? I would be tempted to remove the cooler and redo the TIM and the cooler mounting. If you decide to do that, take a look at the spread pattern of the TIM. Something's wrong there.

 

[officedemon]

the cpu socket got to 52c the core 64c

yeah i got a push 2000rpm pull 1200rpm on the CPU
2 system intake fans at 1200rpm
1 intake 1600rpm on the video cards
2 out take fans 3 speed on max setting.